It’s a nifty idea, the paperbag Easter egg. A nice deviation from the hardboiled norm. This blog, You Are My Fave, has a neat post on how to change it up a bit this Sunday. Using just paper grocery bags, scissors, sewing machine (or double-sided tape), you can make little customized egg-shaped pouches full of [...]

Are you watching “Mad Men”? I’m watching, from the edge of my couch. Eye candy is a big pleasure element of “Mad Men” — Joanie totally inspired me to change the way I do my makeup — and though last night we saw Betty ballooned to plus-size(ish) proportions, her pretty features seemed strangely enhanced by [...]

Now that it’s (more or less) getting warmer outside, the kids’ cabin fever (and yours) is getting a little alleviation, and thank gosh. If you have a tree- or playhouse, now’s the time to go in and sweep out all the winter leaves and mice and anything else that hibernates in those noninsulated outdoor spaces. [...]

I was thinking recently about that weird, damp dust-lint stuff that shows up on your washing machine and on the top of the dryer. It’s like a detergenty soot, a softly sticky gum that gets all over the bottles and boxes of dryer sheets. It builds up around the rim of the washer, under that [...]

I came across this design blog, DENY Designs, that’s pretty alternative, and super neat. (Check out this interesting-but-probably-impossible 3-D screw-art portrait idea.) Duvets are funny things. They’re one of those domestic necessities that totally stumped me when I was leaving college and Becoming A Woman. At first I couldn’t believe how EXPENSIVE they were! How [...]